Silent Assassins Mike LePond- The Review

From the great and energetic metallic band Symphony X, Mike LePond, released his
self-named debut solo album Mike LePond’s
Silent Assassins in 2014; making it one of the biggest metal albums of that
year and even beyond. The New Jersey based artist is the bassist in the band Symphony X and with other members of his
band and Alan Tecchio; they made the album a great success.

Beating the imagination of anyone who has ever had the
opportunity to listen to any Symphony X
album, Mike LePond’s Silent Assassin has
proven to be a much rawer, sensational and purer metal music. Every track in
the album keeps you energetic, pumping with adrenaline till you realize you
have stayed up all night drowned in the powerful melody of Mike LePond’s charm.

As the album characterizes 70’s metal music of Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath
and a whole bunch of metal music artists that have influenced Mike LePond mixed with the growing trend
of heavy metal from Holy Grail, to White
Wizard, Camelot and others; the album has created a desire in the heart of all
heavy metal fans. The album features Mike
LePond from Symphony X on Bass
Guitar, “Metal” Mike Chlasciak who
has performed with Halford and Testament on Lead Guitar, Michael Romeo also from Symphony X on Lead Guitar, and drum
programming, and Alan Tecchio was on Vocal,
he had sung with Hades, Watchtower and
Seven Witches.

The album contains nine singles; Apocalypse Rider, Red Death, The Quest, The Outsider, Masada, Silent
Assassins, Ragnarok, The Progeny, and Oath of Honor. With the thundering of
the bass perfecting the track which is introduced by entrancing riffing of the
guitar, the call to battle Apocalypse Rider
launches the album with a suffusing energy but quite subtle enough when Alan
Tecchio’s vocal makes an entrance. It is swiftly followed by Red Death which undermines any
expectation of the album’s quality decreasing as it progresses. It moves
swiftly and smoothly into different feels, a mid-paced music with a tincture of
epic and the blood thirst of death. He closes the track with these consuming lines “All night dying---Colors of horror---Royal
or common---We are in the throes of the red death.” The Quest, having a
kind of Scandinavian or possibly Celtic feel is introduced by the bass guitar
of Mike LePond as he is supported by the lead guitars, keyboard and piano to
lead Alan into his ferocious war cry, the seven minutes of hyperactivity keeps
you unaware of your heightened excitement.

The Outsider is
graced with the sassy sounds of LePond’s bass all through the beginning makes
the album magnetizing and Masada cannot
be pushed aside either, though the slowest track on the album, its majestic
orchestrations denotes epic that makes you shed tears.

Silent Assassins,
with a lot of tempo changes, great vocals, and shredding, you can never remain
sitting while the song plays, or do you get weary after going through the first
five songs. The chant “Hey! We are Silent
Assassins!” really shows that the artist expects every lover of metal to
remain on their feet as Tecchio yell through the song. The punk-epic feel of
the song mesmerizes then rampages everyone listening. Ragnok seems to be a pure-evil track filled with chants that
instill fears that excites and The Progeny starts with the rumbling of thunder
and light showers of rain followed by the country-folk like intro and then
progresses to a heavier pace. The Progeny
amasses energy moving slowly till the riffs finally surges with excitement. The
album ends with Oath of Honor, a
colossal epic where Alan shows a side of himself like we have never seen before
and every other musician giving their very best in this track.

From the galloping bass to the acoustic guitar, heavy riffs,
steam rolling and even some violin appearances, Silent Assassin is one the greatest creations of metal and heavy
metal music for modern times and it will remain a favorite for every fan of
heavy metal. With the love for and influence of albums that range back to the
seventies and eighties, Mike LePond has done justice to keeping the community
and spirit of metal ferociously strong.

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